Paddington Bear

Paddington Bear, "Queen Kong" and other messages for Queen Elizabeth II left at Buckingham Palace.

One said to the other: "She's been with us since I was a little girl," to which her friend replied: "I know she was our Queen." and "Queen Kong". Thank you for every memory."

Social media has been filled with sweet videos and images of the British monarch appearing alongside the adorable children's character.

The image appears to have taken on new meaning in the last few days in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II's death. Paddington Bear is from Peru and he was adopted by a British family, and the character has always been linked to the UK. He once again visited Buckingham Palace in 2006, this time in real life for a pantomime play called The Queen's Handbag. Bond was three months older than the queen and passed away in 2017 at the age of 91. [Emotional tributes have poured in for the queen](https://www.newsweek.com/how-queen-elizabeth-ii-floral-tributes-death-compare-princess-diana-1741429) from all over the globe, with many people choosing to share images and videos that showed the queen and Paddington Bear. The two-minute-long video has been clipped up online, with Paddington's poignant send-off thanking the queen "for everything" striking a chord.

Queen Elizabeth herself acted opposite Paddington Bear, the beloved Peruvian rainforest native, in a small segment that aired on the BBC.

Queen Elizabeth died on Thursday, at the age of 96. The message on Paddington's official Twitter account appeared shortly after the Buckingham Palace announced the Queen had died "peacefully" at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, at the age of 96. After her death, 73-year-old Charles became the King of Britain and more than a dozen Commonwealth nations.

Mourners have left a Paddington Bear toy amid the flowers outside Buckingham Palace. People have been coming in droves to pay tribute to the late Queen ...

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Paddington, the children's book bear, and the late British monarch appeared together in a sweet video celebrating Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee.

And Paddington himself honored the late queen in a poignant message on his official Twitter page on Thursday. The two-and-a-half minute video premiered on the BBC in June as part of the Jubilee celebrations. Though Paddington never actually meets the queen in the book, he spots her in one of the palace's windows. Near the end of the video, Paddington congratulates the queen on her unprecedented 70 years on the throne. In the video, the queen and The CGI version of Paddington is voiced in the clip by Ben Whishaw, who also voiced the bear in the 2014 movie “Paddington" and the 2017 sequel "Paddington 2."

The globally recognised soft toy is among one of the many poignant mementos left by members of the public in memory of the Queen outside Buckingham Palace.

The Queen made a few more cameo appearances during her reign, including in Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London Olympics. “She’s acting with someone pretending to be Paddington with false eye-lines and she’s got lots and lots of lines and there’s a real joy there. Frank Cottrell-Boyce, who co-wrote the Queen’s TV appearances with Paddington Bear and Daniel Craig, said she was keen to be involved in the comedy sketches.